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January 22, 2004

avoid diebold: register absentee

Avoid the questionable Diebold machines. Register as an absentee voter so that you can have a receipt of your vote. In many states, this takes quite a while so DO IT NOW. [I'll still love you even if you vote for someone i don't like, but i'll be very angry with you for not voting.]

If you're in California, here's the form. It takes all of 30 seconds to fill out.

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Posted by zephoria at January 22, 2004 9:57 AM | TrackBack

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That link is broken.... here's the real form:


https://ovr.ss.ca.gov/votereg/OnlineVoterReg

Voting is the opiate of the masses.
I remember the last presidential election when one of the guys got more (popular) votes than the other guy, but so-and-so won anyways.

Hmm.

Voting is the opiate of the masses.
I remember the last presidential election when one of the guys got more (popular) votes than the other guy, but so-and-so won anyways.

Hmm.

Clif Spab:

Are you aware that in most districts absentee ballots are not counted at all unless the vote differential between the top two candidates is less than the number of absentees filed?

Here's to having your vote not counted.

Sean:

You're not avoiding Diebold by absentee voting; Diebold machines count the mail-ins too.

(At least you'll have a paper record, but that's not good enough in my book. We need an open and observable vote-counting system.)

I'm certainly NOT arguing that the system is either fair or accountable. But you can't just avoid the system and expect it to change itself. Never gonna happen.

If the elections are as close this fall as they are projected to be (ah hem California) then expect a recount. And personally, i would like to have a receipt for that moment.

I would love a better system and Sean, i hope you are fighting that fight too.